Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
Looks great so far.
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
Very cool! It's a shame how much of that old stock ends up in landfills. Are you certain it's pine?
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
Pretty certain. Besides being what nearly everything is built of around here, including circa 1900, there was a knot in the board that smelled strongly of pine resin.
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
That's cool. Yeah it's totally a regional thing when you're dealing with buildings of that age, often whole towns were built from only a few suppliers. That old growth stuff is nothing like the wood we see today (way harder, more stable etc). I am really curious what kind of tone you get out of it!
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
That herringbone binding sho' works a treat with that beautiful pine! Well done to the both of you.
My last build used 60+ yo Douglas Fir that was so so hard my cat couldn't use it as a cat tree even though it really tried. Acoustically speaking it reminded me of ash, maybe a tad brighter. Conifers are fun to use in guitars. I'm curious, how dry is the resin in those planks? Mine was still pretty runny, even after drying for so long!
My last build used 60+ yo Douglas Fir that was so so hard my cat couldn't use it as a cat tree even though it really tried. Acoustically speaking it reminded me of ash, maybe a tad brighter. Conifers are fun to use in guitars. I'm curious, how dry is the resin in those planks? Mine was still pretty runny, even after drying for so long!
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
Nice. I have a few really old boards with some history sitting around, but they're waiting for a project that is "worthy" of them. Thanks for the inspiration, very keen to watch your progress.
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
wow beautiful grain and love that binding!
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
I finished the body and assembled it with a donor neck. These are McNelly Stagger Swagger pickups.
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
Wow, that's a very handsome guitar. I love the old wood. And you nailed the accoutrements.
There's a local pizza shop I frequent that has two enormous old growth fir beams holding up its ceiling--probably 18x36s at 40' long--and every time I'm in there I look up and think about how many Tele bodies you could get out of one of them..
There's a local pizza shop I frequent that has two enormous old growth fir beams holding up its ceiling--probably 18x36s at 40' long--and every time I'm in there I look up and think about how many Tele bodies you could get out of one of them..
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
Beautiful. The binding looks really great with that.
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
That's beautiful. I'll echo those comments on the binding. It really accents the wood nicely and looks pure class. Those old Teisco knobs are a fine match, too. I hope I can make a guitar that lovely someday.
This is an excellent rectangle
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
Great work sir!
How does it sound?
How does it sound?
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Re: Kinghat Fleetline made from reclaimed 113 year old pine
It’s very lovely and the binding choice really works well.
There is something about the pickguard that I find disappointing. I think that it covers too much of that lovely wood, which really should be front-and-center. In contrast to the tasteful choice of binding, which adds to the guitar, the pickguard has the inverse effect for me. Ah, I know what it is: so much plastic that is overrunning so much beautiful and organic wood.
Outside of that, it is stinking lovely!
What shape of headstock did you go for?
There is something about the pickguard that I find disappointing. I think that it covers too much of that lovely wood, which really should be front-and-center. In contrast to the tasteful choice of binding, which adds to the guitar, the pickguard has the inverse effect for me. Ah, I know what it is: so much plastic that is overrunning so much beautiful and organic wood.
Outside of that, it is stinking lovely!
What shape of headstock did you go for?